Grabbd

A guide to places, built with a start-up in Dubai.

Product design · iOS, Android and desktop · 2015

The iOS app

Grabbd was a start-up in Dubai. You found a place, saved it, wrote about it, and shared it.

The brand and the iOS app came first. I started from rough wires, sat in the research, built prototypes, and finished the screens.

The mark is a pin, drawn in a few colours. The same place card was tried on a watch.

63
Place on the App Store
4.7
Rating, from about 2,000 reviews

App Store, as recorded in May 2019.

The Grabbd pin on teal, navy, and black bars, and the wordmark in the same colours.
Six Grabbd marks. The pin and the word, in navy, teal, and gold.
A round watch on a wrist. The screen is a Grabbd card for Coya London, Latin American, 88.8 miles away, with the teal pin.
Grabbd on iPhone: a teal mark, a list of places, a map, search, a filter for restaurants, and a page for Café Rouge.Grabbd on iPhone: a teal mark, a list of places, a map, search, a filter for restaurants, and a page for Café Rouge.

Android, and the site

Android followed in the same visual language, using Material, so the product could reach more people.

I also designed the page that pointed people at the iOS app.

A hand holds an Android phone over a wooden table. Grabbd is on Nearby: Hawksmoor Seven Dials, Coya London, Tate Britain, Homeslice, and Hyde Park.
An Android phone on a notebook. The Grabbd menu is open, greeting Shammi, with Lists, Activity, Settings, and Sign out.
Two iPhones. One is a list: Café Rouge, Jamie’s Italian, Nobu. The other is Best cafes in London, with photographs of the places.
The Grabbd site on a desktop screen, teal, with the app beside four short points: get involved, near you, discover more, stay ahead.

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